The Detroit Tigers will pay their minor leaguers the remainder of their spring training allowances, team chairman and CEO Christopher Ilitch said in a statement Wednesday evening.
The minor leaguers were told by Major League Baseball to leave the organization’s spring training complex in Lakeland, Florida, Sunday afternoon because of the coronavirus pandemic that has halted most of the sports world.
Those players were in a particularly precarious position because of their wages and potential housing issues.
MLB suspended big-league spring training on March 13. Minor-league pitchers and catchers reported to Tiger Town a day earlier, and minor-league position players were to report by March 15.